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6-17 July - Summer SChool Big Data For Peace

Due to overwhelming demand for our first Big Data for Peace Summer School in 2014, we are happy to announce the second edition in July 2015. More info HERE..

24-25 February: Responsible data for humanitarian response

This international expert meeting aims to contribute to future innovation in the field of humanitarian response. It took place one month after the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development presented its latest report, ‘Pathways to Progress’. The report identifies three major challenges in using data: data deficit, data governance and human-centred design. The conference, which is intended as a follow-up to the report, will focus on these three challenges in the field of humanitarian response.Please click here for the conference website.

16-20 February: Innovation Week

As run-up to the international expert meeting "Responsible Data Use in Humanitarian Response" we are organising a student innovation week from 16-20 February 2015 in our lab in The Hague, in collaboration with Cordaid and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We will coach a selected number of student teams to find data-driven innovations on two themes: humanitarian response and monitoring the new sustainable development goals. If you are interested in joining, please contact Thierry van der Horst: c.t.van.der.horst@cdh.leidenuniv.nl.

23 January: Launch WEF Data-driven development Report

Data is the lifeblood of sustainable development and holds tremendous potential for transformative positive change--particularly for lower and middle income countries. Yet despite the promise of a “Data Revolution”, progress is not a certainty. A lack of clarity on privacy and ethics, asymmetric power dynamics and an array of entangled societal and commercial risks threaten to hinder progress. Written by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development, this report serves to clear some of the fog obscuring the vision for how Big Data can be leveraged to address the challenges of sustainable development. Providing a blueprint for balancing competing tensions, areas of focus include: addressing the data deficit of the Global South through more public-private data sharing agreements, establishing resilient governance, and strengthening the capacities at the community and individual level.

Click here to view the full report. The Peace Informatics Lab (Jos Berens, Gideon Shimshon and Ulrich Mans) worked with the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development on this report.

21 november: Peace Informatics Lab at UN in New York

On Friday
21 November, Campus The Hague co-hosted a panel session on Big Data at
the UN Headquarters in New York, in cooperation with the Netherlands
Permanent Representation to the United Nations. Because of Big Data we
see a fundamental change in how we can measure progress in
international development. These innovations can be useful for the UN's
new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will be signed by world
leaders in 2016. Read more

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25 & 26 november: big data for policymakers master class

Leiden University hosted the first Master Class entitled Big Data for Policymakers, for public and semi-public sector workers seeking an introduction to Big Data. New courses will be offered in 2015. Read more...

27 october: mobile unconference The Hague

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9 & 10 october: open development camp

The Peace Informatics Lab will present at the Open Development Camp. Read more...

26 September: new horizon festival

The Peace Informatics Lab will be part of the New Horizon Festival in Rotterdam. Read more...

25-26 September: Wthx Challenge on peace, security & justice

Developing tools for peace, security and justice: Peace Informatics presents at the WTHX Challenge in The Hague. Read more...

18 September: Launch Data mission

The Peace Informatics Lab presents at Datamission's launch event in Amsterdam. Datamission aims to enable mission driven organisations to tap into the large pool of talented data scientists, data wranglers, big data engineers, and other digital technology professionals in the Netherlands. Read more...

Centre for Innovation

The Peace Informatics Lab is initiated and powered by the Centre for Innovation The Hague of Leiden University, located at Faculty Campus The Hague. The CFI prepares Leiden University for the digital future by anticipating on technological trends in education & research.At the Peace Informatics Lab, we apply emerging technology in exploring the dynamics of peace and security. Do you want to know more about the Centre for Innovation? Click here to visit our website.